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Subject: Re: Dr. Hyatt server + crafty 20.0?

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 21:42:01 09/15/05

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On September 15, 2005 at 11:52:21, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 14, 2005 at 14:23:05, Joshua Haglund wrote:
>
>>On September 14, 2005 at 12:45:32, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On September 14, 2005 at 11:44:11, Joshua Shriver wrote:
>>>
>>>>From the previous threads it seems crafty 20 is out in binary, but is the source
>>>>available?
>>>>
>>>>I've tried the past 2 days and haven't been able to get into Dr. Hyatt's ftp
>>>>server.
>>>>
>>>>Any help is appeciate.
>>>>
>>>>Joshua Shriver
>>>
>>>
>>>I am not sure what we are going to do here.  The RAID array is simply
>>>unreliable.  I am probably going to copy all the non-EGTB stuff to a local drive
>>
>>Yeah, setup a mirror server, with a 500 GB hard drive. Enough of this RAID
>>crap... :P
>
>500 gigs won't do it.   I already have more than that on the raid array.  :)
>
>I had thought about some sort of "scripting" where I use our magnetic tape robot
>to perhaps make (say) 50 or 100 gigs available, and "rotate" the files weekly or
>something.  I am not sure yet however.  Still looking at options...

You can buy 4 400Gb IDE/ATA drives for $240 each, plus extra IDE/ATA controller
for 4 devices for $25. $1k for ~1.5Tb. Use it all if you have a backup, or run
software RAID. With RAID you'll still have more than 1Tb.

No clever device controllers or drivers that can go wrong.

Thanks,
Eugene

>>
>>
>>
>>>on the ftp box to get ftp back up.  I might even copy the 3-4-5 piece tables
>>>over.  But there will be no room for the 6's until we can get this 2tb raid
>>>system fixed, if that is possible...



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